11.21.2008 - 10:37 p.m.

Things I will do in order to avoid dealing with an unfinished novel scene:

1) Stay late at work.
2) Pet cats.
3) Consider cleaning kitchen.
4) Give up in despair after having "considered" by sitting at the table, staring at the mess, for ten minutes straight.
5) Pet cats some more.
6) Decide to take a bath. Bring book in but forget to read it because again, am staring off into space. At the faucet, this time.
7) Plan to explain how I am just too depressed to write tonight. Or cook dinner, either.
8) Notice planning of depression is causing surge of actual depression. Yell at cat for batting spare roll of toilet paper into toilet. Sob once in remorse; get out of bathtub before it gets worse.
9) Cannot find perfect lounging pants. Must ransack entire bedroom. Consider doing laundry.
10) Create elaborate nest on couch, with comforter to snuggle in, laptop, and nearby glass of ice and two-liter of Coke.
11) Move file over from backup computer to laptop. Fiddle with wording in chapter 13.
12) Decide to make dinner after all.
13) Cook dinner, chicken, the deluxe way, which involves the trifecta of yum: breading, frying in butter, and soaking in broth/wine/sherry. The kitchen is now even worse.
14) This takes an hour and a half.
15) Test-taste results in couch-nest; pleased with outcome.
16) Displeased with novel, which has stubbornly refused to write itself in my absence.
17) Mmm, gravy-soaked breading bits licked off the plate.
18) Post here.
19) Nineteen is probably fucking write the scene already.
20) ...Nope, nineteen was take a pee break. But maybe twenty.

-stonebridge

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